Merchant Of Venice

          Love is one of the most powerful words known to man. Greed is one of the biggest sins known to man. These two words can make someone who they really are and bring out their true personalitys. And we learned this from the book "Merchant Of Venice" The two main characters Antonio and Shylock are two prime examples of Love and Greed and also how it shows who you really are. Shylock is ends up losing everything and is really greedy and Antonio loses all of his money but is still very happy and loved more people then being greedy.
         Shylock is the face of greedy he is cruel and mean man that will not be satisfied untill he gets the things that he wants. For example "if every ducat in your six thousand ducats had six parts and every part were a ducat, I would not take the money. I want my bond!"pg. 159. He would not take Bassanios money even though he doubled the monet that Shylock was supposed to get from Antonio. That just shows how he wouldnt stop for anything less than a pound of antonios flesh. Another example is when when the judge said that shylock was not allowed to make a drop of blood or else all of his things would be confiscated. And thats when  he finally gave up. It took being threatened of taking away all of his posesions to stop him.
          Although Shylock is the face of greed Antonio is a matter of fact the face of love. No matter what happened to Antonio he just accepted it and did not complain at all. For example "very little. Ihave braced my self and i'm well prepared."this is an example of how he has never complained even when shylock so desperatly wanted a peice of his very flesh. Another example is " you know all my wealth is tied up in  cargoes. I haven't the ready cash, or things money now so go and see for what my credit is worth." Bassanio didnt haveany money to go and see the girl of his dreams that he would later marry. so he went to go and see Antonio for money which Antonio so generously gave him by negotiating a deal with the devil.
         " The Merchant of  Venice " book is all about love and greed and how greed never wins. And there is both a face for greed and in this case it is Antonio for Love and Shylock for Greed, and this book also goes on about how if you choose Love how you will be treated and how if you choose Greed how you will be treated. and pretty much its saying what goes around comes around. But also Love is the passageway to happiness and with Greed you will never succeed.